How To Become Invaluable As a Professional
How To Become Invaluable As a Professional
When working on or curating our professional skillset, it’s incredibly easy for us to feel as though we’re only doing so in order to attain a particular job.
I learned all of these tips through my time in the corporate world. I found them to be very helpful and I hope you will too.
First of all, when we meet the minimum requirements asked of us, putting our resume out there seems like a natural step forward – often because it is.
It can also be that becoming invaluable as a professional is something that gives you potential going forward.
Knowing that no matter what, you have something to give. This is regardless of what your employment status is. That alone can ironically help you avoid layoffs.
It may help you raise the ranks within any job more quickly.
There are a certain set of skills that are always valued no matter what career path you hope to follow. For those who wish to potentially move from one field to another, training these skills can be a very worthwhile use of your time.
Read on to see how you can become an invaluable professional in whatever job you choose.
Focus On Your Weak Points
If you always strive to focus on your weak points, you are the exact definition of a continually self-improving asset.
This may mean that an employer can trust you to learn from your mistakes. If anything, it shows you always seek a resolution to a problem.
It can also help your own professional life as a personal and independent contractor. It will allow you to take the experience from each job you engage with.
The responsibilities you wish to avoid are often a great marker of the responsibilities you should run towards.
For instance, if marketing is a weak point, reading into the subject would be a good idea.
Learning how to use imperative and engaging language, trying your hand at copywriting or studying SEO tactics can help you.
You can apply this thinking to your own brand well.
Understanding People
Business can often seem like a somewhat stagnant study and movement of systems. Remember, these systems are helmed by people.
The difference between securing a lucrative investment or ruining your chances with a terrible PR blunder will originate from your understanding of people.
Paying attention to different demographics and how businesses engage with them, how to speak to any member of a company with respect and brevity, and learning how to build respect in those who have only just met are important skills.
For those interested in absorbing the full benefit of Applied Psychology and how it applies to corporate life, the University of Southern California is an institution of prestigious renown worth considering.
Financial Literacy
While not a golden rule, odds are that if you hope to occupy any position of responsibility and authority, you will need some level of financial literacy. This is to keep things moving along at pace.
Learn how to manage a balance sheet and invest appropriately. Ensure that cash flow is healthy and reckless spending is stamped out.
This is great to manage a non-profit, or start life as an independent professional, or brand yourself as a content creator.
Any employer will find value in people who hold financially literate skills. They are skills you can take with you professionally and personally.
Direct Communication
Direct communication is a valuable tool. It can help you make use of brevity in written communication.
It can help you sound affable yet precise over the phone. As well as allow you to report the current status of a project.
Direct communication can also allow commissioned artists, for instance, to respect their craft and quote appropriately with the invoicing process clearly explained.
It can be used to report harassment or to instruct HR on essential issues taking place within the culture of a firm.
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It can also be used to reprimand or criticize those you hire in a constructive manner.
Above all, training your direct communication in this manner, and learning how to apply it, can help you articulate your professionalism in more ways than one.
With this advice, you’re sure to remain invaluable as a professional.
Do you have any tips on how to become invaluable as a professional?
-Jennifer
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I am a girl from the UK with a lot of thoughts. I left the rat race of the corporate and marketing world to be my own boss. I write about life, finances, home design, fashion, and more. Hoping to inspire people every day. I’m a writer, a reader, and an old soul.